Chapter 111: Marriage
When Zhao Mu received the report of the 800-mile urgent army on the front line, there was only a wry smile on his face.
The invasion of the Elven Empire won without a fight and calmed down the situation, which he really admired Zhou Yi.
And when he learned about the Dark Legion, he was also quite shocked. However, as long as Zhou Yi is there, he is not particularly worried.
But, what is the matter with Brother Zhou telling himself about his wife!?
"Marriage!?"
In the side hall, the ministers who were recruited were dumbfounded.
King Wucheng actually wants to marry his majesty, and he is still the crown prince of the Elf Empire, isn't the two countries still at war?
"King Wucheng entered the enemy camp and persuaded the Elven Empire to call off the army and make a truce. The elven crown prince agreed to attach to our country, cancel the emperor's honorific title, and canonize the elven king by the empire in the future!" General Zhao Mu threw the report on the table and said with great interest.
"Congratulations to Your Majesty! King Wucheng is really a great talent, and his loyalty and courage are admirable. Hearing this, several important ministers present smiled happily.
Although I don't know how Zhou Yi did it, as long as the war situation in the south of the empire is satisfactorily resolved, this is a good thing, isn't it?!
"What do you think about marrying the Elven Crown Prince Yu Wu Amber Light?" Although Zhao Mu was a little tired of being arranged by Brother Zhou to get married, the elven crown prince, he had seen it, and he was absolutely heavenly and fragrant!
"Your Majesty! Does King Wucheng mean to make her a queen or a concubine?" Zhang Ji suddenly asked.
Meng Hongye also raised his head, even though Zhou Yi had already left Luojing City, he still had that light-hearted attitude. No matter how much Zhang Ji and Zhou Yi's dogs jump up and down, as long as it does not endanger the fundamental interests of the Academy of Literature and does not touch his own bottom limit, he will remain silent.
At this time, although he didn't like it in his heart when he heard about the marriage with the elves, as long as the elven crown prince of Narauszi was not established as the queen, and the emperor found a few foreign princesses, he could still accept it.
However, Zhang Ji's words made him a little uncertain, could it be that Zhou Yi meant to let His Majesty make the crown prince of the elf clan the queen.
"Queen!" Zhao Mu said lightly. Zhou Yi had already explained the benefits in detail in the military newspaper, but the military newspaper involved the matter of the Dark Legion, and he didn't want to make it public for the time being.
The royal family of the Qinling Empire is the purest and most noble Chinese blood in the empire, how can a woman of a different race be canonized as the mother of a country, will it be necessary to let a prince with elf blood become the crown prince in the future!" Sure enough, Meng Hongye retorted loudly, he must not accept such an arrangement. From top to bottom, the Academy has always preached the supremacy of Chinese ancestry.
At the beginning, Zhou Yi's policy proposed equal and consistent treatment of many minority races around the empire, and he was actually a little dissatisfied in his heart. However, because of Zhou Yi's strength, coupled with his comfort to himself, it was only the imperial court and the Chinese people's gentle kindness to these minority races that did not have fierce opposition.
At this time, the alien race was established as the queen, which touched his bottom limit. After all, if the elven crown prince is made the queen, the prince she will give birth to in the future will be the eldest son. Could it be that such a bastard should be turned into an emperor?
"Why not, Your Majesty, King Wucheng's move is Huairou's strategy, the elven crown prince is the orthodox bloodline of the royal family of the Kunya Elf Empire, and the Kunya Empire was the overlord of the Eastern Continent thousands of years ago, and the bloodline of their royal family is extremely pure. With such a bloodline, she was canonized as the queen by Her Majesty, and the prince born in the future is the most noble bloodline of the two empires!" Zhang Ji deserved to be Zhou Yi's ironcore, and when he heard Meng Hongye's words, he immediately quit! Without caring about Lao Meng's face at all, he refuted it directly, and what he said pointed directly to Lao Meng's most sensitive bloodline view.
"The minister seconded the proposal! Establishing the elven crown prince as the queen has a hundred benefits and no disadvantages. King Wucheng's construction is to ask His Majesty to show his tolerance and comfort the attached elves in such a posture! The minister heard that this elf tribe has a population of hundreds of millions, and just by setting up an elf queen, he can subdue the hearts of the people of this hundreds of millions of elf tribes, and this matter is feasible!" Gao Jun never spoke at the court meeting in the past, and when the first emperor was in power, the court was controlled by Meng Hongye and Lin Bo and others, and he would not be invited to participate in the side hall deliberations. Since Zhou Yi came to power, because of his wholehearted cooperation in new things such as movable type printing, his political treatment has been greatly improved, and his opinions are also very important in the side court deliberations like now.
However, who gave him the power he has now, he knows in his own heart. Therefore, in the court, he is also a hardcore Wucheng king's faction. Whatever Zhou Yi said, he will support it unconditionally!
At this time, Meng Hongye opposed Zhou Yi's construction, and he naturally wanted to stand up and support Zhang Ji.
"In this matter, King Wucheng has made a decision with me. The elves are attached, and the condition proposed at the beginning is to become a country within a country, except for cutting off the titles of the empire and the emperor, and cutting part of the army, the others are still changing the soup and not the medicine. It wasn't until King Wucheng proposed marriage that the elves could be relieved!" Although Zhao Mu couldn't see a trace of expression on his face, the essence in his eyes made everyone guess that he actually supported Zhou Yi.
"Hmph, how could the empire be afraid of the elves, King Wucheng has an army of millions of people, and there are also sages with the army, so he is not afraid of the elven army at all. And even if the battle is stalemate, and the fight continues, the empire can still draw troops to continuously support until the elves are driven into the sea!" Meng Hongye didn't look at Zhang Ji and the others, stood up angrily, and said bitterly to Zhao Mu.
In his opinion, without Zhou Yi's support, Zhang Ji and Gao Jun are nothing!
In this case, Zhao Mu is not easy to reprimand him. After all, his starting point is to maintain the imperial family, although he is a little stubborn that to keep the royal blood pure, he can't cold his loyalty.
At the beginning, Zhou Yi also took into account the support of the Academy of Literature for the imperial family, so he did not deliberately suppress them, but only limited the dominance of the Academy of Literature.
"Meng Shangshu, there have been drastic changes in the territory of the Elven Empire, forcing the Elven Race to move to the Eastern Continent, this is hundreds of millions of elves! If the Empire can't effectively appease them, then the south of the empire will inevitably be in flames, and the north of the empire is still facing the threat of orcs, so you can't put all your military power into the south!
Moreover, King Wucheng received reliable information that the source of the upheaval in the local elves would also endanger the safety of the empire. Therefore, he advocated reconciliation with the elves as much as possible, so that he could deal with the future crisis with all his might. ”
Zhao Mu patiently explained, and then thought of what Zhou Yi said to him at the beginning, and a sense of pride suddenly surged in his heart. The emperor of men is not the emperor of the human race, but the emperor of all races. If you can't even tolerate a mere elf clan, how can you talk about becoming a human emperor!
"Although the Chinese population in the Eastern Continent is large, the population of other ethnic groups combined is not a minority. Not to mention, the orc race in the north, the half-orc race in the Mombak Kingdom, and the white people in the Rolik Kingdom, if the empire wants to unify the entire Eastern Continent, these races are all unavoidable constraints. Do I mean I'm going to kill them all?!
When I first succeeded to the throne, King Wucheng once told me that I wanted to make a great will, not only to conquer the extreme eastern continent, but also to expand to the western continent. The Qinling Empire should mix with the world and dominate the world!
The Chinese are my people, and so are the other minority races in the empire. If the elves are attached, they are also my people. If I can dominate the Eastern Continent in my lifetime, then the orcs, half-orcs, and those whites are also my people.
They are all my people, no matter how high or low, no matter what race, I don't discriminate equally!
If the Qinling Empire wants to be proud of the world, and if I want to become the first emperor of the ages, I must have the mind to embrace all rivers!"
This is the first time that Zhao Mu has spoken about his ambitions in front of the important ministers of the court, and it is also the first time that the future direction of the empire has been revealed.
When these words came out, not to mention Zhang Ji, Gao Jun and others, even Meng Hongye was stunned. In front of the emperor's ambitions, the battle for bloodlines, the position of the queen, seems so small. And his own point of view seems too narrow, is this the difference between the finch and the bird!?
Zhou Yi actually persuaded His Majesty to set such a lofty goal, mixing with the world, and it was dazzling to think about it.
Wait, His Majesty just said that the source of the Elven native upheaval will threaten the Empire, what does this mean!?
Meng Hongye had just settled down on the mood of being disturbed by Zhao Mu, and suddenly remembered that there was a hint of meaning in what the emperor had just said.
"Your Majesty, what do you mean when you say that there has been a drastic change in the elven homeland and will threaten the empire?" Meng Hongye thought of this, so he asked directly.
The Elven Empire's move to the north will definitely not be for no reason. However, it can make such a huge country abandon its homeland and leave its homeland, even at the expense of canceling the imperial and imperial titles. It is conceivable that the source of this drastic change must be a monstrous event, leaving the elves helpless.
Don't look at the uselessness of his mouth + belittling elves, but the strength of the elf empire, he will never dare to underestimate it. A thousand years ago, the Kunya Elven Empire had no choice but to move south and take refuge in the sea. Although the losses are heavy, the foundation accumulated over thousands of years before, as well as the support of the Goddess of Life Palace, after thousands of years of recuperation, the strength is not strong.
Even with such strength, they couldn't avoid the tragedy of the country, and they didn't dare to say that the Qinling Empire could fight with one force!
"I can't tell you about this matter for the time being, lest it cause this force to notice the empire in advance. However, what I want to say is that the power that can destroy the elven empire and make it impossible for the elves to stop and not even dare to fight, the empire must not take it lightly!" Zhao Mu's expression was quite solemn when he said this.
Although he was dissatisfied with Zhao Mu's concealment, Meng Hongye's heart was raised. I can't say anything, I must be afraid that once the matter is publicized, it will cause chaos in the empire, and on the other hand, as Zhao Mu said, it will be noticed by this force!
Sighing in his heart, under this threat and Zhao Mu's ambition, Meng Hongye chose to compromise.
"The minister has no objection!" bowed, and he sat back in his seat.
Now that he has unified his thoughts, Zhao Mu stopped talking nonsense, and directly ordered to send his inner servants to Pingman City to announce the decree, and Zhou Yi was fully responsible for matters related to the elves' attachment and marrying the elven crown prince.